What an adorable movie! The husband did everything with his wife’s happiness and well-being in mind, even when it meant putting off his own dreams. Yet he never once felt sorry for himself or complained or acted the martyr. They both just needed better communication skills so they didn’t keep reading each other wrong all the time!
It is a tender movie. The main characters were quite annoying whenever they assumed rather than communicate truthfully with each. Not too surprising for the times. Fine performances and production. Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The film quality has been nicely preserved. Borzage won Best Director. A worthwhile look at a slice of Americana for 1930s film fans. Enjoy!
This movie is NOT ONLY SWELL but totally ON THE LEVEL! All of the featured leads are the finest actors with great supporting players. I wonder why they called this "Bad Girl"? Makes you wonder... how did they do all of that back then? And with nothing made in China, only USA.
Another gem by Frank Borzage, who not only won an Academy Award for Directing this film but in 1927 won the very first Academy Award for Directing. He was a master of this genre -- two young people in love who face adversity in the real world and over all odds find happiness in the end. Audiences loved it then and now.
CLM I love the simple honesty these films' portray! People are too afraid to say what they believe, unless their face is hidden, then it's trash talk, like on the internet...
In the original book and play it was implied that the girl got pregnant the night she stayed late in Eddie's room and she had to get married. Even though it's pre code the studio said that the timeline had to change in order to keep the young lady's virtue intact until after the wedding. No matter, this is a top notch film and James Dunn deserved an Oscar for his role.
Starting at 5 minutes, good shots of Luna Park and Coney Island when it was Brooklyn's playground. There was no Vegas yet, and NYC supplied it all. My father worked as a waiter there in the 30's and it was one of the happiest times of his life. This pre-Code piece feels much like the life there he talked about.
+San Francisco Professor 1931 USA..Forget "Great Depression". People enjoyed life. We had a "middle class". Gold Standard and Gold was in peoples pockets. Gold and Silver coins. Before Roosevelt and the undermining and sell out of the USA. My Grandparents time. Still remember their talks of life during this time. Demographics were good. People were united in the classroom to the job. One can buy a Tommy Gun at Sears and no permits background checks. It was a great time.
Love the way the Fox pre-code films were produced. They had some nice dialogue written into those films, as if you watched a stage production instead of a typical early talkie with slow speech patterns. Then, again, Hollywood as a whole experienced this change around the 1931-32 period when dialogue became a little faster in films as people got used to the talkies by then.
Beautiful print and transfer. Thank you. I thought this was going to be Sally Eilers movie, but James Dunn really steps up in the second half and steals it. Why are these pre-code movies so much more realistic than any of the movies being made today?
"when someone delivers baloney to my door, I always give them a receipt!" Hahahahh. Also, some of the camera shots here are pretty good for the time (e.g. the roller coaster)
Hard to believe it's his 1st film, such a character. And when he begs the doctor...😭😭😭 and the boxer 🤣Loved him with Shirley Temple and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Turned out to be life is like fiction Ty for posting it.
I ran across this by accident and gladly so! I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and am surprised that I've never viewed it until today! Thank you for posting this movie!
@1:10 That’s what my Grandma looked like in her wedding picture. The same vail form fitted dress, a huge bouquet of flowers. I miss my Grandma, she was so good to me, so understanding, so loving. She always had time for me, never rude or cut me off while talking. Nothing like my mother. It was my fathers mother. I love you Little Grandma! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌈😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️😣☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
I know love the era ..my Grandparents & Great Aunts & and uncles time...they Married for life too....... love the Bridal gown..I love how women are getting more feminine now ....yeah!!
What a beautiful movie if only life was like this these days. People was so different back then l know there would of been mean nasty people too. But not like theses days now l wish l lived in those days. Everything was so ?? I just can’t think of the word to explain what l feel but such a much better time. Just the story line the movie itself no sex no swearing. It just makes me smile feel so happy watching these old movies. Thank you for uploading this wonderful movie ❤❤❤
Entertaining film, but in a story supposedly about a woman, it focuses a lot on a husband whose sacrifices are really all about his own insecurities. Well acted and shot though. Of course his actions today would rightly be seen as emotionally abusive (wife can't work, women fault for wearing clothes that attract men, no communication in major decisions).
I loved it too!! I have written down a collection of "swell" sayings and come backs from these old movies and they are so much fun to say to folks now-a-days, and watch their reactions. Thanks for the great film.
Jami Conroy I would love to see your popular phrases and comebacks list! I am always saying things to my family and friends from my 1930’s and 1940’s movies.....but nobody gets me! Like, “turn blue” and “so’s your old man”
There was an old SNL skit where they played actors from this era.... Funniest line was a guy who said, "Why.....I oughta sock you!" Great lines like that....and fist fights where the guys never even lost their hats....And they always had hats!
Very enjoyable movie showing us the belief system/behaviors from those times! ~It’s funny how the flirting behavior of these two started out nasty, but it a humorous way~
What a beautiful movie ... so heartwarming and so cute .. I just love Eddie & Dot and Edna ... I wish I could find another “ Eddie “. Just beautiful ❤️😍❤️
@Chirping Trees true because things where diferente to them and they despised alot modernization but still these movies are classics to me and much better then many of the ones today and I'm a gothic victorian women who dresses in period clothing and approve 😉
The only people who stay in a hospital for two weeks are those who in a coma or a medically assisted coma and dying. Birth of a child, it's virtually the same day you deliver that you go home provided there were no major problems.
My grandmother spent two weeks in the hospital in the 40's. The other one had her appendix out in 1925-26 and was in the hospital for a while. I still have the bill for it and it was around $126.00 for the operation and room and board.
@@RADIUMGLASS These days it is too expensive to keep people in the hospital! Part of the reason for the increase in cost is that medicine is now able to accomplish far more than it could 60 years ago. My parents were both doctors, and over time I've been able to see with my own eyes how much more today's doctors can do for their sick patients. Today dozens of well-paid doctors, nurses, technicians and others are involved in each patient's care. For example, in the relatively recent past a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Now some people are cured of cancer, and many others live decent lives with the disease under control for years. Likewise a heart attack used to be treated by putting the patient into a hospital bed and more or less simply waiting to see the outcome: life or death. Now there are stents, heart surgery and many other tools to keep a patient alive. This is such a different world from my younger days.
@@RalphDratman I was reading on another site that in 1989 it was common for a neurosurgeon to make $375,000 a year in the late 80s into the 90s and now it's about half of that due to rising expenses. The costs of operating a practice has certainly gone up, but yeah decades ago you either lived or died after getting a heart attack, there wasn't much that could be done.
I love this movie; I've seen it at least five times. There's something quite sincere and convincing about Dunn & Eilers' relationship, even though the script, conventions, and time constraints lead it into melodrama by the end. If Sally Eilers had only been a tap dancer, she'd have had it all over Ruby Keeler : ) Frank Borzage was good stuff. Thanks for the beautiful quality upload.
Where does any 'bad girl' come into it? The female protagonist simply fell in love, got married and suffered the usual ups and downs of marriage. The husband showed heaps of egotistical behaviours that put his marriage in jeopardy. The wife's only real crime was to think that her husband didn't want their child. I'm at a loss - why is she deemed a 'bad girl'?
how was he ever egotistical when she lies and is untruthful...I agree with the bad girl...she was so strong in the beginning and now all wack...its impossible to be a good man
The title is from the book and play that came before it... unlike the movies, a 1928 novel could have a girl get pregnant before marriage... I saw someone selling a 17th printing, and that was only 1929... The play was 1930, the movie 1931 and a new edition of the book with a picture including a ukulele and a much more revealing outfit.
James Dunn produced an interesting portrayal of his character. Wikipedia lists 116 films directed by Frank Borsage. Like Borsage's Liliom (1930), this is a good character study. Well worth seeing. Here is an alphabetized list (from Wikipedia) of films directed by Frank Borsage. 7th Heaven (1927) A Farewell to Arms (1932) A Flickering Light (1916) A Mormon Maid (1917) After Tomorrow (1932) Age of Desire, The 1923) An Honest Man (1918) Atom, The 1918) Back Pay (1922) Bad Girl (1931) Battle of Gettysburg, The (1913) Big City (1937) Big Fisherman, The (1959) Billy Jim (1922) Billy the Kid (1941) Children of Dust (1923) China Doll (1958) Circle, The (1925) Code of Honor, The (1916) Courtin' of Calliope Clew, The (1916) Curse of Iku, The (1918) Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925) Demon of Fear, The (1916) Desire (1936) Disputed Passage (1939) Dixie Merchant, The (1926) Doctors' Wives (1931) Dollars of Dross (1916) Duke of Chimney Butte, The (1921) Early to Wed (1926) First Year, The (1926) Flight Command (1940) Flirtation Walk (1934) Flying Colors (1917) Forgotten Prayer, The (1916) Geisha, The (1914) Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921) Ghost Flower, The (1918) Good Provider, The (1922) Granddad (1913) Gratitude of Wanda, The (1913) Green Light (1937) Gun Woman, The (1918) Hearts Divided (1936) His Butler's Sister (1943) History Is Made at Night (1937) Humoresque (1920) I Take This Woman (1940) I've Always Loved You (1946) Immediate Lee (1916) Innocent's Progress (1918) Jack (1916) Journey Beneath the Desert (1961) Knight of the Trail (1915) Lady, The (1925) Land o' Lizards (1916) Lazybones (1925) Life's Harmony (1916) Liliom (1930) Little Man, What Now? (1934) Living on Velvet (1935) Lucky Star (1929) Magnificent Doll (1946) Man's Castle (1933) Mannequin (1937) Marriage License? (1926) Matchin' Jim (1916) Moonrise (1948) Mortal Storm, The (1940) Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine, The (1913) Nell Dale's Men Folks (1916) No Greater Glory (1934) Nth Commandment, The (1923) Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916) Pilgrim, The (1916) Pitch o' Chance, The (1915) Pride and the Man, The (1916) Pride of Palomar, The (1922) Prudence on Broadway (1919) Quicksands of Deceit, The (1916) River, The (1929) Samson (1914) Secrets (1924) Secrets (1933) Seven Sweethearts (1942) Shining Hour, The (1938) Shipmates Forever (1935) Shoes That Danced, The (1918) Silken Spider, The (1916) Smilin' Through (1941) Society for Sale (1918) Song o' My Heart (1930) Spanish Main, The (1945) Stage Door Canteen (1943) Stranded (1935) Strange Cargo (1940) Street Angel (1928) That Gal of Burke's (1916) That's My Man (1947) They Had to See Paris (1929) Three Comrades (1938) Till We Meet Again (1944) Toton the Apache (1919) Two Bits (1916) Typhoon, The (1914) Unlucky Luke (1916) Until They Get Me (1917) Valley of Silent Men, The (1922) Vanishing Virginian, The (1942) Wages for Wives (1925) Wee Lady Betty (1917) Who Is to Blame? (1918) Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919) Wrath of the Gods, The (1914) Young America (1932) Young as You Feel (1931)
+ferociousgumby --SAY... Someday you'll grow up. Won't that be swell, ya little mope? You should thank God for your blessings, not your petty little juvenile observations.
+ferociousgumby i'll trade your "like" and a "wtf" and "koool" or "maaaan" any day for pure silence.....the eternal..."WHAT" is one that can't die out.....merde!....if you're french.
I love the opening tune and the song "Come on baby and beg for it",the band is playing on the boat and Sally sings.I cant get enough of the early 30s "pop"music,post Charleston but pre-swing.
The picture and sound quality is so good that it looks 30 years younger than it is. Make a comparison with To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) for example. I reckon that this movie has been digitally restored with the help of 2K or 4K digital motion picture film scanners and computer programs to get rid of the scratches, "blobs" and excessive film grain.
Out on Blu-Ray from TCFHV. That the film exists at all is because of MOMA-most of Fox's original nitrate prints and negatives went up in flames at an infamous vault fire in 1937.
The plot evolved a bit like The Gift of the Magi and had so many great lines that i had to save it to watch again and again. What a restored treasure!! The bride's maids gowns were perfect and made me want to remarry in my old age.
James Dunn is impressive here - very natural, especially for his first feature film. But kudos also to Minna Gombell, who would later make such an impression as the nurse in THE SNAKE PIT.
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"Listen sister, if you don't want guys to salute you, take down your flag"
They just don't write brilliant dialogue like that today.
Oh! Oh! I didn't read your post when I put up mine. Sorry, but I didn't know. My bad.
What an adorable movie! The husband did everything with his wife’s happiness and well-being in mind, even when it meant putting off his own dreams. Yet he never once felt sorry for himself or complained or acted the martyr. They both just needed better communication skills so they didn’t keep reading each other wrong all the time!
It is a tender movie. The main characters were quite annoying whenever they assumed rather than communicate truthfully with each. Not too surprising for the times. Fine performances and production. Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The film quality has been nicely preserved. Borzage won Best Director. A worthwhile look at a slice of Americana for 1930s film fans. Enjoy!
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I can’t believe Costume Designer Dolly Tree was not credited for her beautiful work in this film! Days before Adrian or Edith Head.
This movie is NOT ONLY SWELL but totally ON THE LEVEL! All of the featured leads are the finest actors with great supporting players. I wonder why they called this "Bad Girl"? Makes you wonder... how did they do all of that back then? And with nothing made in China, only USA.
Another gem by Frank Borzage, who not only won an Academy Award for Directing this film but in 1927 won the very first Academy Award for Directing. He was a master of this genre -- two young people in love who face adversity in the real world and over all odds find happiness in the end. Audiences loved it then and now.
What a tour-de-force performance by James Dunn!! The scene with him and the Dr. Had me in tears. Sally Eilers should have been a major star too!
More wisdom in these old movies. Thanks for sharing with us.
CLM
I love the simple honesty these films' portray! People are too afraid to say what they believe, unless their face is hidden, then it's trash talk, like on the internet...
James Dunn is all aces! great dialogue. a loving film. i wish we were all so kind hearted. i'm a widow with a boy that just turned seven too.
The scene with the woman on the phone in the hallway was sad and unique for that time
First time ever seeing this movie. It's good when you see how misunderstandings happen and to see everything come to light! What a treat!
James Dunn became one of my favorite actors after seeing him in "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn". He is also very endearing here.
and boy could you sing in that movie also
In the original book and play it was implied that the girl got pregnant the night she stayed late in Eddie's room and she had to get married. Even though it's pre code the studio said that the timeline had to change in order to keep the young lady's virtue intact until after the wedding. No matter, this is a top notch film and James Dunn deserved an Oscar for his role.
Love the opening scene! That bridal gown cold be worn today easily!!!
It’s gorgeous!
I agree. Beautiful!
“Say, if I could look like you in a wedding gown, I’d be a bigamist!”
Recommended! Really enjoyed this quirky, tender movie about misunderstandings and loyalty . . James Dunn is brilliant.
The way the husband's emotions swing back and forth is unusual and interesting. He is unpredictable.
Starting at 5 minutes, good shots of Luna Park and Coney Island when it was Brooklyn's playground. There was no Vegas yet, and NYC supplied it all. My father worked as a waiter there in the 30's and it was one of the happiest times of his life. This pre-Code piece feels much like the life there he talked about.
+San Francisco Professor Thanks for the insights. My father (b. 1921) spoke very fondly of Luna Park.
+San Francisco Professor see "millie"
+Scott Awaywithit I've got it queued up now, to watch at some point soon. Thanks!
+San Francisco Professor 1931 USA..Forget "Great Depression". People enjoyed life. We had a "middle class". Gold Standard and Gold was in peoples pockets. Gold and Silver coins. Before Roosevelt and the undermining and sell out of the USA. My Grandparents time. Still remember their talks of life during this time. Demographics were good. People were united in the classroom to the job. One can buy a Tommy Gun at Sears and no permits background checks. It was a great time.
+40Kens ..We were Free..
Love the way the Fox pre-code films were produced. They had some nice dialogue written into those films, as if you watched a stage production instead of a typical early talkie with slow speech patterns. Then, again, Hollywood as a whole experienced this change around the 1931-32 period when dialogue became a little faster in films as people got used to the talkies by then.
Beautiful print and transfer. Thank you.
I thought this was going to be Sally Eilers movie, but James Dunn really steps up in the second half and steals it.
Why are these pre-code movies so much more realistic than any of the movies being made today?
Films may have gotten smarter and slicker in many ways since, but they were never warmer. This one has so much heart.
I adore precode films for this reason. So real and so much more interesting then anything made today.
"when someone delivers baloney to my door, I always give them a receipt!" Hahahahh.
Also, some of the camera shots here are pretty good for the time (e.g. the roller coaster)
Hard to believe it's his 1st film, such a character. And when he begs the doctor...😭😭😭 and the boxer 🤣Loved him with Shirley Temple and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Turned out to be life is like fiction
Ty for posting it.
The child in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was played by Peggy Ann Garner. Shirley Temple wasn't in that movie.
Remember him in the Shirley Temple movie about the pilot? How she sang the Good Ship Lollipop? He had the sweetest smile when he hugged her.
I love the way "give a girl a tumble" had a different meaning back then. Eddie was a product of the times, and better than most. Gotta love him.
One thing that never changes with time :) great feel good movie "okay"
I ran across this by accident and gladly so! I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and am surprised that I've never viewed it until today! Thank you for posting this movie!
I love pre-code movies. Some of the silent movies are great, too...
Sound and print are *excellent* for a 1931 flick!
(And the movie is great as well)
I really enjoyed this... I've recently discovered the good old movies are just incredible... especially in these days and times....
Yes, So clear and crisp .
I love the movies of the 1930"s, great movie. James Dunn was real good looking
He is so young in this film,a very nice,handsome looking man.
@1:10 That’s what my Grandma looked like in her wedding picture. The same vail form fitted dress, a huge bouquet of flowers. I miss my Grandma, she was so good to me, so understanding, so loving. She always had time for me, never rude or cut me off while talking. Nothing like my mother. It was my fathers mother. I love you Little Grandma! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌈😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️😣☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
Sounds lovely
How very fortunate you were to have a person in your life,like your grandmother❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Mine too my precious Mom s Mother we lived with her so sweet .I couldn't do a thing wrong in her eyes ....my darling Mom too,🤎🤎😮💨😮💨
I love the clothes and the way people dressed from that era. Nowadays people dress down as far as they can get away with. Sad
AuPtAg 48 Agreed. What’s up with fashion these days? The opening scene with the bridal gown? That could easily be worn today beautifully!
I know love the era ..my Grandparents & Great Aunts & and uncles time...they Married for life too....... love the Bridal gown..I love how women are getting more feminine now ....yeah!!
"Are you waiting for me ,baby?..I'm waiting for my husband ,he's a Cop on this s beat... excuse me"!.....🤣👍👍👍
My Grandmother taught me not to be alone with Men too....and not too late
What a lovely wedding dress!
That wedding dress and bouquet! To die for!
Oh, yes! Oooh, yessss!
"If you don't want guys to salute ya,' take down your flag." I love that line.
Ohh, that was the best husband role ever! Thank you so much for sharing this movie with us!!!
What a great old movie
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Thanks so much for uploading this movie !!!
This FOX sound recording is superb!
Instantly one of the greatest films I've ever seen
I wish I had a man like Eddie...beautiful movie!
Boy! This is really nicely done. Great scenes.
Hehe
the delivery nurse is a trip.
good picture. enjoyed it, thanks!
What a beautiful movie if only life was like this these days. People was so different back then l know there would of been mean nasty people too. But not like theses days now l wish l lived in those days. Everything was so ?? I just can’t think of the word to explain what l feel but such a much better time. Just the story line the movie itself no sex no swearing. It just makes me smile feel so happy watching these old movies. Thank you for uploading this wonderful movie ❤❤❤
I loved seeing this wonderful classic ! Thank you ❤️🇨🇦🙏🏽🇨🇦❤️
Wow, what a hidden gem! This is worth watching for the Luna Park footage alone. The clothes and the wisecracks are a bonus. Thanks for posting it.
Entertaining film, but in a story supposedly about a woman, it focuses a lot on a husband whose sacrifices are really all about his own insecurities. Well acted and shot though. Of course his actions today would rightly be seen as emotionally abusive (wife can't work, women fault for wearing clothes that attract men, no communication in major decisions).
I loved it too!! I have written down a collection of "swell" sayings and come backs from these old movies and they are so much fun to say to folks now-a-days, and watch their reactions. Thanks for the great film.
Jami Conroy please print some here
Jami Conroy I would love to see your popular phrases and comebacks list! I am always saying things to my family and friends from my 1930’s and 1940’s movies.....but nobody gets me! Like, “turn blue” and “so’s your old man”
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It reminds me of an O.Henry story. Some wonderful scenes in here.
Wow what a film, jutst rendomly stubled upon it...Amazing
There was an old SNL skit where they played actors from this era....
Funniest line was a guy who said, "Why.....I oughta sock you!"
Great lines like that....and fist fights where the guys never even lost their hats....And they always had hats!
Did anybody else cry?..... ok maybe it's just me bwahhhhhh😟😟😟😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🤓
Very enjoyable movie showing us the belief system/behaviors from those times! ~It’s funny how the flirting behavior of these two started out nasty, but it a humorous way~
amazinly good acting in this pre code movie, the whole movie is superb ,good story
Eddie is a stand up guy
What a beautiful movie ... so heartwarming and so cute .. I just love Eddie & Dot and Edna ... I wish I could find another “ Eddie “. Just beautiful ❤️😍❤️
This is the 551st Best Picture nominee I have watched. Only 23 more to go and I'll have seen them all!
After this, I will have 140 more. Slowly but surely. However, I have seen all of the winners.
Amazingly well written for the time.
movies with class not with trash classic are the best
@Chirping Trees true because things where diferente to them and they despised alot modernization but still these movies are classics to me and much better then many of the ones today and I'm a gothic victorian women who dresses in period clothing and approve 😉
What an excellently composed final theme!
Guys always trying to lay their baloney at the woman's door. Ain't it the way.
That's one good movie!!! Haven't the faintest who any of them are but they were good
I Love these Movies!!! Us Women of Today>>Got Nothin on those Gals>>!!
I thought everyone in the 30’s was depressed! They look happy
No one would go to the theater to see sad people. They went to the movies to escape life. Talkies were still a novelty in 1931
@@Fred-mp1vfwell said!
So very interesting to see movies like this.
Thank you for sharing such a terrific film.
Best kind of romance. :) They do need better communication between them . :) Although the gender roles of the time somewhat prohibited that.
My tears kept bursting out when she screamed for her baby. I couldn't imagine what would happen if the baby gets hurt.
Wow, did women really spend two weeks in the hospital after having a baby?
Today they practically use the drive through window for maternity cases.
Bill23799 Exactly!
The only people who stay in a hospital for two weeks are those who in a coma or a medically assisted coma and dying.
Birth of a child, it's virtually the same day you deliver that you go home provided there were no major problems.
My grandmother spent two weeks in the hospital in the 40's. The other one had her appendix out in 1925-26 and was in the hospital for a while. I still have the bill for it and it was around $126.00 for the operation and room and board.
@@RADIUMGLASS These days it is too expensive to keep people in the hospital! Part of the reason for the increase in cost is that medicine is now able to accomplish far more than it could 60 years ago. My parents were both doctors, and over time I've been able to see with my own eyes how much more today's doctors can do for their sick patients. Today dozens of well-paid doctors, nurses, technicians and others are involved in each patient's care. For example, in the relatively recent past a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Now some people are cured of cancer, and many others live decent lives with the disease under control for years. Likewise a heart attack used to be treated by putting the patient into a hospital bed and more or less simply waiting to see the outcome: life or death. Now there are stents, heart surgery and many other tools to keep a patient alive. This is such a different world from my younger days.
@@RalphDratman I was reading on another site that in 1989 it was common for a neurosurgeon to make $375,000 a year in the late 80s into the 90s and now it's about half of that due to rising expenses. The costs of operating a practice has certainly gone up, but yeah decades ago you either lived or died after getting a heart attack, there wasn't much that could be done.
This is a nice enjoyable movie I haven't seen in years, thank you for the pleasure Kid!
Probably the sweetest movie I've ever seen.
What a fine picture show.
Boy, he sure married a high maintenance dame.
I love this movie; I've seen it at least five times. There's something quite sincere and convincing about Dunn & Eilers' relationship, even though the script, conventions, and time constraints lead it into melodrama by the end. If Sally Eilers had only been a tap dancer, she'd have had it all over Ruby Keeler : ) Frank Borzage was good stuff. Thanks for the beautiful quality upload.
"Hello", that lil boy killed me when he said, l want to see Dot get out of bed. 😂
Incredible flick!
I loved the movie Old New York Luna Park Coney Island were beautiful NYC life in a specific time A happy ending after trial and tribulation
Loved his hand gesture.....okay?!!!!
What a lovely litte little movie
Great movie! Thank you for your channel!
Love Dancing River Ferry Festivities :) and Old Coney Island,
Thanks Love Old New York/Bklyn movies...Ivette
Where does any 'bad girl' come into it? The female protagonist simply fell in love, got married and suffered the usual ups and downs of marriage. The husband showed heaps of egotistical behaviours that put his marriage in jeopardy. The wife's only real crime was to think that her husband didn't want their child. I'm at a loss - why is she deemed a 'bad girl'?
It's 1930s clickbait
+Patrick3183 This makes me laugh really hard
how was he ever egotistical when she lies and is untruthful...I agree with the bad girl...she was so strong in the beginning and now all wack...its impossible to be a good man
The title is from the book and play that came before it... unlike the movies, a 1928 novel could have a girl get pregnant before marriage... I saw someone selling a 17th printing, and that was only 1929... The play was 1930, the movie 1931 and a new edition of the book with a picture including a ukulele and a much more revealing outfit.
@@stepno👋🙋♀️🥳
Nice lil film. But the wrong title. She was a good girl!
miapdx Portland all these kids are grannies
Thats what i said, strange title but it's the real one according to IMDB! Bad Girl, 1931.
She certainly was .. I'm in love
James Dunn produced an interesting portrayal of his character.
Wikipedia lists 116 films directed by Frank Borsage.
Like Borsage's Liliom (1930), this is a good character study. Well worth seeing.
Here is an alphabetized list (from Wikipedia) of films directed by Frank Borsage.
7th Heaven (1927)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
A Flickering Light (1916)
A Mormon Maid (1917)
After Tomorrow (1932)
Age of Desire, The 1923)
An Honest Man (1918)
Atom, The 1918)
Back Pay (1922)
Bad Girl (1931)
Battle of Gettysburg, The (1913)
Big City (1937)
Big Fisherman, The (1959)
Billy Jim (1922)
Billy the Kid (1941)
Children of Dust (1923)
China Doll (1958)
Circle, The (1925)
Code of Honor, The (1916)
Courtin' of Calliope Clew, The (1916)
Curse of Iku, The (1918)
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)
Demon of Fear, The (1916)
Desire (1936)
Disputed Passage (1939)
Dixie Merchant, The (1926)
Doctors' Wives (1931)
Dollars of Dross (1916)
Duke of Chimney Butte, The (1921)
Early to Wed (1926)
First Year, The (1926)
Flight Command (1940)
Flirtation Walk (1934)
Flying Colors (1917)
Forgotten Prayer, The (1916)
Geisha, The (1914)
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921)
Ghost Flower, The (1918)
Good Provider, The (1922)
Granddad (1913)
Gratitude of Wanda, The (1913)
Green Light (1937)
Gun Woman, The (1918)
Hearts Divided (1936)
His Butler's Sister (1943)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Humoresque (1920)
I Take This Woman (1940)
I've Always Loved You (1946)
Immediate Lee (1916)
Innocent's Progress (1918)
Jack (1916)
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)
Knight of the Trail (1915)
Lady, The (1925)
Land o' Lizards (1916)
Lazybones (1925)
Life's Harmony (1916)
Liliom (1930)
Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Living on Velvet (1935)
Lucky Star (1929)
Magnificent Doll (1946)
Man's Castle (1933)
Mannequin (1937)
Marriage License? (1926)
Matchin' Jim (1916)
Moonrise (1948)
Mortal Storm, The (1940)
Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine, The (1913)
Nell Dale's Men Folks (1916)
No Greater Glory (1934)
Nth Commandment, The (1923)
Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916)
Pilgrim, The (1916)
Pitch o' Chance, The (1915)
Pride and the Man, The (1916)
Pride of Palomar, The (1922)
Prudence on Broadway (1919)
Quicksands of Deceit, The (1916)
River, The (1929)
Samson (1914)
Secrets (1924)
Secrets (1933)
Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Shining Hour, The (1938)
Shipmates Forever (1935)
Shoes That Danced, The (1918)
Silken Spider, The (1916)
Smilin' Through (1941)
Society for Sale (1918)
Song o' My Heart (1930)
Spanish Main, The (1945)
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Stranded (1935)
Strange Cargo (1940)
Street Angel (1928)
That Gal of Burke's (1916)
That's My Man (1947)
They Had to See Paris (1929)
Three Comrades (1938)
Till We Meet Again (1944)
Toton the Apache (1919)
Two Bits (1916)
Typhoon, The (1914)
Unlucky Luke (1916)
Until They Get Me (1917)
Valley of Silent Men, The (1922)
Vanishing Virginian, The (1942)
Wages for Wives (1925)
Wee Lady Betty (1917)
Who Is to Blame? (1918)
Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919)
Wrath of the Gods, The (1914)
Young America (1932)
Young as You Feel (1931)
Why does every sentence begin with "SAAAAAAAY!" No one says this any more (thank God). Same with "swell".
+ferociousgumby --SAY... Someday you'll grow up. Won't that be swell, ya little mope? You should thank God for your blessings, not your petty little juvenile observations.
+ferociousgumby lol
+ferociousgumby maybe if you weren't tumbling around with all those jane's you'da been wise to the parlance of the 1930's... see?"
+ferociousgumby i'll trade your "like" and a "wtf" and "koool" or "maaaan" any day for pure silence.....the eternal..."WHAT" is one that can't die out.....merde!....if you're french.
+ferociousgumby are you thinking they should put subtitles for the idiots like you.?
Surprising that this won OSCARS for its direction (Frank Borzage) AND writing! 😳
I love the opening tune and the song "Come on baby and beg for it",the band is playing on the boat and Sally sings.I cant get enough of the early 30s "pop"music,post Charleston but pre-swing.
The picture and sound quality is so good that it looks 30 years younger than it is. Make a comparison with To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) for example. I reckon that this movie has been digitally restored with the help of 2K or 4K digital motion picture film scanners and computer programs to get rid of the scratches, "blobs" and excessive film grain.
Out on Blu-Ray from TCFHV. That the film exists at all is because of MOMA-most of Fox's original nitrate prints and negatives went up in flames at an infamous vault fire in 1937.
The sound quality is tinny, i found a better print here, the sound is much better
really liked this movie o.k.
Strange to think that every single person involved in this movie is dead now.
You startled me momentarily- but yes..Great point you bring! Thank you
@MamaMia ...you're always saying that...😂
@@pipfox7834No doubt. The same thought gets me everytime! But how did you know?
@MamaMia.... I was kidding really, 😅 all the best to you! I love these old films too ❤
@@pipfox7834 ty, All the best to you too!🌷
Why was that nurse so rude? Teasing about the baby????
This is one of the Best classic movies I've seen ❤❤❤
What’s with at crazy nurse? “Isn’t it cute?” “No its not yours “
After a while, you desperately want to slap both of them.
2 weeks in hospital after having a baby, today you are lucky if you get the spend a night.
GREAT
The plot evolved a bit like The Gift of the Magi and had so many great lines that i had to save it to watch again and again. What a restored treasure!! The bride's maids gowns were perfect and made me want to remarry in my old age.
I can't understand why this is called "Bad Girl," but it's one of the sweetest films I have ever seen.
I love those old pre-code movies.
great movie and story ...
🎉 fantastic movie 🍿🎥 I love 💕 this. Thanks for Sharing. Hod bless you all for keeping an old lady happy.
I'm watching with my headphones and I can hear the camera.
James Dunn is impressive here - very natural, especially for his first feature film. But kudos also to Minna Gombell, who would later make such an impression as the nurse in THE SNAKE PIT.